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Gospel Keys 101: Basics and Fundamentals of Playing Piano by Ear

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Learn my 3-step process to playing tons of hymns, congregational, and basic songs by ear! I show, step-by-step, how to take a song from just a one-fingered melody to a full-sounding arrangement!

2.Harmonizing the melody - Once you have figured out the melody (using some of my techniques on the resource page), it is time to harmonize it. This is simply choosing various chords to accompany the melody. There are several techniques and tricks to doing this. More resources on learning how to harmonize melodies

3. Altering Chords - This is the best part! Now that you have strategically figured out the melody to a song and have harmonized it, altering your chords to produce certain sounds is the next step. If you were playing gospel music, you would alter your chords differently than if you were playing classical or country music. More resources on altering chords

4. Listening - After you have determined the melody, harmonized the melody, and altered some of your chords, there are various techniques you can use to make sure that your song sounds right. More resources on listening techniques

I personally recommend "The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" 300-pg Course and through my relationship with Jermaine (the author of this course), I've been able to get him to throw in a few bonus items (3 additional piano software programs). He has taught literally thousands of musicians how to play the piano by ear. If you understood just half of what he discussed above, you'll definitely benefit from his 300-pg course. Click here to learn the secrets to playing absolutely any song on the piano in virtually minutes! I highly recommend it.

"The Secrets to Playing Piano By Ear" 300pg Course - Learn the secrets to playing literally any song on the piano with a few simple, "easy-to-understand" techniques and principles! Join Jermaine Griggs in learning tons of music theory, concepts, and tricks that will help you to learn piano by ear! Thousands of musicians have already taken advantage of this excellent program ... why not you?

Gospel music is all about patterns. If you ask any experienced musician about learning new songs, they will agree that the same chords are used over and over again in song after song. I wish I could brag about how I learn every new chord "that comes out" but you know what...?

Chords don't come out like new album releases. Progressions don't come out every 12 weeks. They've been here for decades and they will always be the same.

New songs will come out with different combinations of chords but what it all boils down to is getting to the point where you can recognize recurring patterns within any song. These small patterns ... or chord progressions ... or "couples" will enable you to learn any song by ear --- regardless of how complex you think the song is.

Truth #2:You Have to Know What Major Key The Patterns Originate From...

See, once you've determined which patterns are at work, the next battle is to determine what major key the song is being played in. There are twelve major keys just like there are twelve major scales. A song can only be in one key at a time.

Songs may change keys (for example, from "Db major" to "Eb major") but can only be in one distinct key at any given time. And trust me... as you listen to a song, you should be able to hum (with your own voice) this key out loud and it should fit in at all places during the song.

Next, you'd basically transfer what you are humming to the piano and find the single note that matches your voice. This is what I recommend for people just starting out. experienced musicians will find the major key of a song within 3 seconds without humming but there has never been a time I haven't been able to help a beginning musician understand this concept of key signatures.

Keep reading and you'll learn it too...

Truth #3:You Have to Know How to Hear These Patterns In "Real-life" Songs

I'm going to repeat myself time and time again. Songs operate by patterns and until you learn to recognize these patterns in songs, you'll be in the same boat.

Asking people for chords to new songs will only help so long. There will come a time when you're going to have to step out on faith and learn these songs on your own.

Now In Less Than 2 Hours, You Can Jump Start Your Piano Playing With These 3 Easy Steps!

Dear Friend,

Jermaine Griggs, the pioneer of the award-winning GospelKeys learning system, has come up with 3 simple steps so that you won't waste any time at all. In fact, it'll virtually cut your learning time in half! I copied and pasted the most important parts below so you can get a general idea.

These three steps are not super complicated theories that require several years of experience. In fact, they were designed for the total beginner with absolutely no musical experience.

What most people don't understand is that most songs follow patterns. If you've been mistakenly learning songs, one by one, you're only exercising your ability to MEMORIZE chords --- and that's exactly why it takes SO LONG to learn just one song.

BUT...

If you concentrate on LEARNING PATTERNS, you'll never go wrong because songs are built on repeating patterns. You should NEVER EVER have to memorize dozens of songs when they all share the same exact CHORDS, PROGRESSIONS, AND PATTERNS.

If you have any questions, feel free to contact us.

Talk soon, PLAY BY HEARING

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Learn To Play Music By Hearing

For most people, learning to play the piano means you have to be familiar with reading notes, and knowing the different keys. Of course, music lessons would typically take months before you can even start playing the piano while reading the sheet music. Unfortunately, not all people have the time to study the basics before learning how to play an instrument. It is for people like these that PLAY BY HEARING was launched. PLAY BY HEARING works best for those who want to learn how to play gospel music since it typically has similar progressions, but these tried and true techniques can be applied to any style of music. Spread the news- with proper training, anyone can learn to play music by hearing!

Attention Gospel Musicians: Do You Face These Three Problems?

Problem #1: NO WHERE TO GO

Most educational institutes don't teach our style of music so where do we go to improve our skills? Whether you agree or not, gospel musicians have ALWAYS had to go to the "school of hard-knocks." In other words, playing gospel music in a church involved getting advice, tips, and lessons from WHOEVER you could (if you couldn't learn it on your own). When have you ever heard of getting a degree in playing "toe-tapping, hand-clapping" praise songs by ear? Plain and simple --- in the past, if you wanted to learn, you had to go over and beyond to get the help that you needed.

Problem #2: NO ONE TO ASK

Even if there are talented musicians in your area, most of them are not willing to "share" chords, progressions, tips, and advice with others for fear of losing their own musicianship job. And of course ... this occurs more frequently in certain locations than in others. For some reason, musicians feel that they must compete with one another --- thus, we develop this "every-musician-for-themselves" type of environment. Am I not right? Have you experienced this type of reaction to a simple call for help? If you haven't, then you're blessed and ought to be very thankful for the musician who is helping you.

Problem #3: MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT LEARNING NEW SONGS

In my experiences of teaching and speaking to thousands of gospel musicians, I've come to recognize that there are still tons of people who don't realize that many songs share the SAME EXACT chords, progressions, bass-runs and more. I say this time and time again --- IT IS NOT A MATTER OF LEARNING HUNDREDS OF NEW SONGS BY EAR ... it's a matter of recognizing similar chords and progressions that are present in MULTIPLE songs. I can easily name over 100 praise songs that share the same exact progression.

Music Lessons Made Easy

Did you know that you canlearn to play piano, guitar, and even drums by ear? All musicians need proper training. And once you have a proper foundation laid, the sky is the limit. You see, songs operate in patterns, and when you're taught how to recognize these learning patterns, and how to apply them when you're playing your instrument, you'll never go wrong. Where have you "went wrong" in the past as a musician? What do you need? Quite simply, what you need is proper foundational training. After the foundation is laid, you can achieve almost anything, musically speaking, with music lessons made easy.